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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whee, I have had my very own #Hanko stamp made today~ 💖 Let's go sign some contracts! X) #Japan #Osaka #日本 #大阪

A small clip-close case covered in black fabric with brass and white patterns on it

The same case folded open. There is a little wooden Hanko stamp in it and a tiny red ink cushion that can be covered by a little lid.

My fingers taking the Hanko out of the case to show the stamp side.

A red stamp print on white paper, with the kanji for "Sayuri" inside a red circle.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Out to find food and drinks... with very long lines in front of every single place. But worth the wait in the end 💖 Crazy busy, loud and colorful #Dotonbori in #Osaka #日本 #大阪 #道頓堀

A busy street at night with lots of people and a complete overkill of lights and decorations on the fronts of restaurants and stores

A water canal with sightseeing boats in the distance. On both sides there are pedestrian walkways and buildings full of lamps, lights, decorations and advertisement.

A much narrower alley than before, still full of lights and power cables crossing overhead.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still back on #Okinawa: Visiting American Village, a colorful kind of Disneylandish food and shopping area. It was fun and pretty cheesy x) #Japan #日本 #沖縄 #アメリカンビレッジ

A pink and red house with bright blue windows

A store decked out in US American tropes like a red Cadillac, records and bowling pins

A huge store called Christmas Land, with a giant teddy bear and giant nut crackers standing in front of it

An inner yard surrounded by yellow buildings, there are two trees and a huge, cartoonist plastic skeleton sculpture in a dancing pose.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think I just found some sort of Adidas x Angine de Poitrine collaboration in Ōsaka...

A white sweatshirt with Adidas stripes on the sleeves and black polka dots all over.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Shisa posting! This is the shisa couple guarding the entrance to Tsuboya Yachimun Pottery Street in #Naha #Okinawa 💖 #Japan #日本 #沖縄 #シーサー

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Insane amazing lunch at Nuchigafu Café #Okinawa - Teishoku set with sashimi, sea grapes and local bittermelon tenpura, hibiscus juice, cold #bukubuku tea, chinsuko ice cream. I kinda want to eat this every day now. 💖 #Japan #日本 #沖縄 #定食 #ぶくぶく茶 #青空ごはん部

A teishoku set meal on a large black tablet, various bowls with all sorts of Japanese traditional food.

A bowl of bukubuku tea and a little plate of Okinawan sweets on a black tablet. Also a tiny pottered vessel with tiny yellow flowers.

A scoop of ice cream with brown sauce and a little silver spoon on a small pottered plate

The little clay vessel with the flowers from earlier in a close up image.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Local #cat Mi-Chan was homeless for one year, but is the manager of a store for 15 years already now. 💖 #Japan #Okinawa #日本 #沖縄 #猫 #商店街

An orange and white cat sleeping in a cat bed

The same cat in its bed. The bed is sitting on a box. In front of the box stands a sign stating, in Japanese, "cat store manager Mi-chan" next to a photo of the cat.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My hat now has protection from evil. 🤙 A tiny leather manufacturer I found offered #sangwa, an old #Okinawa charm to ward off evil #majimun spirits. Those are usually made from susuki leaves, but they made a leather version of it so people can take it home without the leaves crumbling too soon.

Close up on a beige colored wide brimmed outdoor hat with a big, red plastic hibiscus blossom clipped to the hat band. Next to it, a turquoise colored leather bow shaped charm is tied to the hat band.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Shuri castle, from where the Shō ruled the Ryūkyū kingdom before it became #Okinawa The castle is under renovation since a big fire in 2019. One more month and it'd have been open again for a look inside... #Japan #日本 #沖縄 #琉球

the main building of Shuri Castle, a red, large building with slanted roofs and several stairs leading up to the main entrance. There is construction work around it

The same building from a bit further away, showing also the side wings.

a gray, massive stone wall with a gray wooden double gate in the middle. Three steps lead up to it, a taller than the wall roof above it. Behind the wall plants reach up.

A panoramic view over the castle grounds from above and behind the main building. A lot of massive stone walls forming yards and corridors open to a blue sky.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

... followed by cocktails at "The Alchemist" Bar 🍸 #Japan #Okinawa #日本 #沖縄

Close-up of a cocktail, foamy surface with little red petals floating on top

a view over the bar counter, with dried plants and herbs hanging from the ceiling, empty glasses and clay mugs in front of a brick wall.

A bright orange cocktail with a lot of fruit in it. A little two pointed golden fork is sitting on top of the glass.

A wooden little chest on a bar counter. The lid is open with a lot of dry ice fog rising from the box. A chalice sitting inside can just barely be seen.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had some amazing #Yakiniku yesterday, tried out this ancient, mythical Japanese tradition called "tabehōdai" ("all you can eat"), plus nomihōdai Awamori from Okinawan glass. Happy to spend this time with friends 💖 #Japan #Okinawa #日本 #沖縄 #焼肉

A round table grill. Fire is shooting up from it while somebody sitting behind the table is moving meat with some tongs

A wider view of the table with the grill. There's mugs with clear, sparkly drinks, plates with grilled meat and chopsticks.

A slightly opaque, bright blue glass on a coaster on a wooden table

Stairs leading up to a door with the large sign of the yakiniku restaurant. There are a lot of lamps illuminating the ads for various restaurants and bars.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Shisa, the cute dorky relatives of Chinese Fu Dogs, are found EVERYwhere on #Okinawa and I love them They come as a pair, guard entrances and seem to do a great job. This 24/7 sweets and ice cream shop for example let's you just walk in, get stuff and leave money It's guarded by Shisa after all 💖

The window of a little shop with one pink and one light blue Shisa formed by glowing neon light tubes in the window

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A typhoon is approaching, it's raining all day already. So while I spend the time at Parco City mall in Naha, have some images of nature around the Sēfa Utaki sacred site yesterday (no photos allowed at the site itself) #Japan #Okinawa #日本 #沖縄 #斎場御嶽

White hibiscus blossoms in front of the open sea

A hill side sloping up towards the left, with the ocean in the background on the right

Red hibiscus flowers in front of a steep, overgrown hill on the right, with the ocean in the background

A tall upright sign in front of a reception building, naming the entrance to the Sēfa Utaki sacred site, informing it is a world heritage site

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Essential warning on the back of the rental car: "A foreigner is driving" Yep. Please be kind to me. (I got honked at the very first day... in #Japan where supposedly nobody ever honks out of politeness xD)

A sticker on the trunk of a black rental car. It depicts a pink heart with "gaikoku no kata ga unten shite imasu" - "a foreigner is driving" and "heartful friendship in Okinawa" written on it

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #Okinawa #Japan travel absolute essential EDC: 🌺 #Orion brewing shirt 🌺 wide brim hat (with plastic hibiscus blossoms) 🌺 parasol 🌺 uv sleeves (to cover tattoos at shrines) 🌺 goshuinchō (to collect shrine calligraphy) 🌺 folding fan 🌺 sunblocker, apres sun & deodorant

The things described in the post, arranged decoratively

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ended a good first day and night at the Yatai Mura ("food stall village"), narrow little streets with tiny bars and restaurants, drinking and eating from tiny place to place and chatting a little with staff 💖 Walked home in a slight rain that made humidity even worse~ #japan #okinawa #yataimura

One of the entrance to Yatai Mura, view into a narrow alley at night, brightly illuminated by a lot of lamps hanging from low buildings, a lot of people standing and sitting at tables in front of all the food stalls

A black ceramic plate on a table with some pickled ginger and three pieces of nigiri sushi on it

Two buildings higher up on a hill side, at night. They are both illuminated, the one on the right has two large open segments that are illuminated intense red. Viewed from below.

View from an elevated viewpoint at night. A street intersection with a lot of yellow taxis at a stop sign. Behind them is a tall building with illuminated windows in a lot of different colors.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A first long day of exploring #Naha #Okinawa Checked out #Naminoue beach, had some #Orion beer there. Walked down #Kokusaidoori street all the way to some mall and looked at fun tiny back alleys. Also... A&W Burger out of all things to eat in #Japan XD

Watching over a few buildings and trees from the 8th floor of a hotel building onto blue sky and blue ocean. Close to the horizon there is a cape with some construction cranes

Looking over a few treetops from above onto the small inner city "Naminoue" beach of Naha. There is a car bridge built right over it, crossing from left to right

A small river of opaque green water, in between a car road on the left and multi story buildings on the right. There are bushes growing along the river. Parallel to the river on the left, there is the track of a monorail train above the road

A tall shisa statue sitting on its haunches, its front paws on a big ball.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kanpai, cheers and greetings from #Naminoue Beach, #Okinawa! Starting some exploration~ #Japan #日本 #沖縄 #浪の上

Pov onto Naminoue Beach, holding a can of Orion beer into the shot from the side

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just entered the hotel room at exactly midnight. 31.5 hours of travel from "leaving the door at home" to "stepping into the hotel room". And as tempting as sleep is... going to the conbini for something cold to drink now. #Japan #Okinawa

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next step reached! #Haneda airport #Tokyo - with a welcome by only valid receptionist for #Japan and a view from the topmost observation deck.

A tall Godzilla statue in the airport terminal

A view over Haneda airport with the sun setting at the horizon underneath a slightly cloudy sky

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Made it to #Hanoi #Vietnam safe and sound! Just a boring plane picture from the gate as there's not much more than a brief layover until another five hours flight to Tokyo.

Pov from an airport gate window onto several parked planes

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Travel preparations, writing a list of words and phrases I might need at the airport in #Japanese I stumbled over the word "yaritori" - "exchange (of letters etc)" Easy to mix up: "yaritori shita mêru" - "emails we exchanged" "yakitori shita mêru" - "emails about having grilled some chicken" XD

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Found this fun detail in an absolute masterpiece of giant AI generated company ad poster on a city building wall and I am not sure what's funnier. A two headed cow... or the fact the company's slogan was "quality always wins".

detail shot of a big ad poster showing a brown and white cow in a meadow. The cow has a head on both ends of the body, lowered to the ground to eat grass.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I might have spent too much time learning #japanese #kanji when yesterday I walked past a building with "fire emergency ladder" symbols in the window of every level... and it takes me a serious moment wondering why somebody wrote "eye eye eye eye" into those windows... 目

part of the front of a larger building with windows on top of each other each having a sign in the middle of them. White square with a red border, black stylized ladder in it that looks like the japanese character "me"for "eye"

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Attended the first ever #CSD #Pride in #Offenbach #Germany today and it was much bigger than anticipated! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ It also had a triple car crash right next to the gathering spot 5min after I arrived there. A car rear ending another, pushing it onto yet another, because the driver was busy staring...

CSD gathering right before the pride parade started at the Büsing Park in Offenbach

Pov: walking along in the pride parade, many people with pride flags ahead.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hum. A quarter to three at night A final day of work tomorrow before a long vacation, and after doing a second work shift today until... sometime past 10pm to get everything done in time for my leave I just really have a severe case of "not-feeling-like-sleep"ia At least now I feel kinda prepared

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just watched this brief documentary about #ttrpg in #Japan & having played them for most of my life it was interesting to watch (sorry, German only) As I will be in Ueno Park in about 3 weeks from now... let's see if I can take a look at that Monodrako RPG Cafe :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLB...

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Shin Cthulhu: Wie das Rollenspiel Call of Cthulhu nach Japan kam - Dokumentation

YouTube video by Orkenspalter TV

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Listening to old inherited #vinyl with a lot of good old memories attached. 💖 #nowspinning #jeanmicheljarre #oxygene #music

The vinyl record cover of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene sitting upright next to a record player on a low, white typical IKEA shelf. There are more records in the shelf underneath.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I read the perfect work related Japanese pun and I am severely disappointed in myself for not making it up myself: 月曜日 / ケツ曜日 getsuyôbi - Monday ketsuyôbi - Assday

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I LOVE #monstera and whenever I see one under the perfect conditions in some botanical garden I wish I could have one this giant at home... and at the same time hope for the one I DO have at home to not completely take over and rule my apartment with an iron fist. Errr leaf.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

T minus ten days until Japan. Five more days of work. When and how did waiting for an awesome event become terrible. Not knowing how to manage preparations, how to get things at work done in time to impossibly prevent anxiety about leaving stuff to equally overburdened colleagues?

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Driving home from my sis' place deep in the Black Forest somehow always an adventure. This time: Some random car ablaze in a giant flame on the side of the road. Barely evading a car ahead of me jamming on the brakes for a deer crossing the road.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In equal parts the cutest as well as the most inspirational sight at yesterday's visit at the #Wilhelma in #Stuttgart - this little #fennec know how to relax. 💖

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I own a record player about three to four months now. I did not have as much fun listen to music for decades. Fuck mindless online sprinkling with random #music. Pick what you listen to yourself.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Completed my Boards of Canada collection on #vinyl and it is just SO good. The Campfire Headphase is amazing. I think it is my favorite album of theirs so far. 💖 #boc #boardsofcanada #music #nowspinning

A record player on a low white shelf. There is the vinyl cover of the "Campfire Headphase" album by Boards of Canada in a record cover holder next to it. Underneath there are more records.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fun aspects about working for an international company: Escalation in a chaotic project I am sick leave stand in for right now resulted in being in Germany, chatting with a colleague from Panama, talking about local customs and swapping vacation suggestions. I love getting to know people 💖

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Heute gelernt: "Maggi" spricht man eigentlich "Madschi" aus Erfunden von Michael Johannes Julius Maggi, dem Kind eines Italienischen Einwanderers in der Schweiz Wenn also ab jetzt irgendwer nicht ˈmadʒːi sagt: Achte mal auf deinen stimmhaft postalveolaren Frikativ nach dem alveolaren Plosiv!

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Loving this SO hard - it is all sorts of comfy I can't really explain. Small spaces and rain and snake thing person. Wonderful. 💖

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I live in a very sick country if the solution for this many people is "if things are shit... let's wade in deeper". #Germany #SachenAnhalt

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Svenska Love Records, I... have some questions about your logo. #vinyl #nowspinning #kinky

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Benefit of a Düsseldorf business trip: Chikin Katsu Teishoku at the Kushitei Immermann Street 🙏 デュッセルドルフへの出張の終わりにはイマーマン通りにある「串亭」でチキンカツ定食~ #青空ごはん部 @gohanclub.bsky.social

A tablet full of delicious Japanese food

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It turned out even better 8D So, I had all the mentioned effort... and because of even more admin chaos of everybody involved I pretty much helped an engineer carry a 5lbs cardboard box of hard drives down a flight of stairs. That's it. At some point we mock argued who is allowed to carry it.

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Coming up: Driving for 4 hours, booking a hotel for 1 night, driving back home for another 4 hours To help an engineer colleague lift a heavy piece of hardware for about 10 minutes. Being project management Tell me again how letting tons of people go because of #AI makes my job more efficient XD

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Gekko 🇯🇵 大阪 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I attended the very tiny Christopher Street Day Pride Parade at local Groß-Gerau. No matter how tiny, no matter where. Attend! Be loud! We need to show we exist! 💖 #csd #pride #lgbtq #germany

Photo of the Price Celebration at the Sandböhl Platz in Groß Gerau

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